Country singer "Big Tom" McBride was readmitted to hospital last weekend, a fortnight after he had been treated for a heart attack. According to his family, the second hospital admission was to monitor the success of the singer's earlier surgery.
After a career in the IT sector I spent the final 25 years of my working life, along with my wife Pauline, as online publisher to the Irish Diaspora. From 1987 onward the email version of the Irish Emigrant became a vital link with home for many Irish people who had settled overseas.
In retirement I am involved with the Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland. I also travel when the opportunity arises and most years Pauline and I walk a Camino to Santiago de Compostela.